AntPool, the mining pool affiliated with mining rig big Bitmain, as an example, final month introduced that it had invested $10 million into growth and apps for Ethereum Basic, whereas Ethermine, the most important Ethereum mining pool, introduced a beta model of EtherMine Staking, a staking pool service. Then, there have been rumors that Ethereum miners would hard-fork, or make a radical change to, the community in protest of the Merge. However the chance of that taking place and being profitable is extraordinarily slim.
